Munroe, Kirk, 1850-1930

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Dates:
Birth 1850-09-15
Death 1930-06-16
Americans,

Biographical notes:

Author and adventurer.

From the description of Papers of Kirk Munroe, 1850-1940 (bulk 1867-1932). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71066384

American juvenile author.

From the description of A mud-bespattered arrival from Califronia, being Chapter II of an unidentified work : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript unsigned, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270613377

Biographical Note

1850, Sept. 15 Born Charles Kirk Munroe, Prairie du Chien, Wis 1867 1868 Explored and surveyed routes for the Union Pacific Railroad Co. and Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Co. 1868 1869 Attended Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 1876 1879 Reporter, New York Sun and New York Times 1879 1882 Editor, Harper’s Round Table 1880 Founded League of American Wheelmen 1883 Married Mary Barr (died 1922) 1886 Settled in Coconut Grove, Miami, Fla. Published Wakulla; A Story of Adventure in Florida. New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1887 Published The Flamingo Feather. New York : Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square 1888 Published Derrick Sterling; A Story of Mines. New York: Harper & Brothers 1890 1891 Traveled from Coconut Grove, Fla., to the Ten Thousand Islands in sailboat Allapata 1900 Published Under the Great Bear. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. 1905 Became a real estate developer, Miami-Dade County, Fla. Published For the Mikado. New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1924 Married Mabel Stearns 1930, June 16 Died, Miami, Fla.

From the guide to the Kirk Munroe Papers, 1850-1940, (bulk 1867-1932), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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Subjects:

  • Authors and publishers
  • Canoes and canoeing
  • Cycling
  • Indians of North America
  • Indians of North America
  • Literature
  • Railroads
  • Seminole Indians

Occupations:

  • Adventurers
  • Authors

Places:

  • Hudson Bay (as recorded)
  • Hudson Bay (as recorded)
  • East Asia (as recorded)
  • Florida (as recorded)
  • East Asia (as recorded)
  • Everglades (Fla.) (as recorded)
  • Everglades (Fla.) (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Florida (as recorded)

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